Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He usually wears his white robe and has his axe always slung over his shoulder. His hair is black and curly. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is a great chef.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Guardian, Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (1000 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (1000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (50 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Old masterpiece painting (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. She wears a feathered hat to cover her moderate length brown hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She comes from a rich western family. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature flail.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 1600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His chestnut hair is cut short. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born into a rich family. In his 13th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Flaws: Greedy, Fearful. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She tends to wear a white poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt, and she perpetually has her hammer ready. She has dyed her greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. She is baby faced.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this western gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Assassin arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 800 gp. A silver and pearl hairclip (70 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. She wears a robe, a symbol of luck around her neck, and a whip on her belt. She has a hunchback. Her golden hair is cut short. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born in the east. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 250 gp.

Description: He wears an entirely black suit with yellow socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He carries with him a set of scythes on his belt, each one with a amber on the hilt. He keeps his white hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are brown.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Orcs in the north were limited. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Logical. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 6000 sp. Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Black opal (600 gp). Chrysoberyl (100 gp).

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. Her eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Tippletoe grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Tippletoe. She's also a talented Bowyer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Artistic, Impeccable. Bonds: Job, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a worn and beaten armor. She has no crest. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Some 5 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Burana never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, In love. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 15000 sp. Zircon (40 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1200 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears pastel painted combat armor at almost all times. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her fur is red and curly. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Barber born in the past three hundred years. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. A gifted student she started as a Blacksmith, but she got bored and became a Barber. She struck the Barber job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Expand her business; and balancing her hectic life and new barber responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 300 gp.